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Personal Independence Payment claim success rates

PIP is not an easy benefit to claim successfully. So far, according to the DWP's own statistics, just 45% of new claims for personal independence payment have been successful where the claimant is not terminally ill. The success rate for DLA to PIP transfers is currently 69%.

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Download Our Personal Independence Payment (PIP) Guides

Benefits and Work has published a suite of guides to PIP claims and appeals.

Our 70 page guide to claiming PIP takes you through the whole complex process of making a claim, from the initial telephone call, through completing the ‘How your disability affects you’ form and on to your face-to-face assessment.

We've also published a 19 page guide to PIP appeals will guide you safely through the mandatory reconsideration and appeal process. Use the appeal guide along with our 32 page guide to written appeal submissions and our 23 page guide to challenging PIP medical reports - with over 50 different grounds for appeal - and you'll be giving yourself the best possible chance of a successful appeal.

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Personal Independence Payment (PIP) Timetable

Current DLA claimants have already started to be reassessed for personal independence payment (PIP) in some areas. By October 2018, it is intended that all current DLA claimants will have been assessed for personal independence payment (PIP) instead.